Passerine

A7sus4
(it's played by a banjo-like instrument but that is the chord)

[Verse 1]
A7sus4                            Em7
Like carillon bells, the house of Augustus rings
Cadd9                                   G              A7sus4
     With the echoing hymn of my fellow passerine, they took to it
                                      Em7
Like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle to an aerie
Cadd9                                           G
    And my god, it's getting hard to even hum a single thing


[Chorus]
Cmaj7                               G/B
You were the song that I'd always sing
             Em                         G
You were the light that the fire would bring
       Cmaj7                               G/B
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
            Em                    G
Pushing the spear into your side again

[Interlude]
A7sus4 Cadd9 x2


[Verse 2]
A7sus4                                           Em7
See, my birds of a kind, they more and more are looking like
Cadd9                              G
       Centurions than any little messiah
A7sus4                                     Em7
And as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine
Cadd9                                     G
      I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind, but


[Verse 3]
A7sus4                              Em7
My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline
Cadd9                                             G
     From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream
A7sus4                                    Em7
     Purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams
Cadd9                                                G
      It don't bring me relief, no it don't bring me nothing that


[Chorus]
Cadd9                             G/B
You were the song that I'd always sing
               Em7                      G
You were the light that the fire would bring
      Cadd9                               G/B
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
             Em7
Pushing the spear into your side again
      N.C
And again and again

[Interlude]
A7sus4 Cadd9 x2


[Bridge]
A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, What am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord